BTRTN August 2018 in Review: Seven Days in Mayhem
Born To Run The Numbers's monthly review of an August that was bad even before August 21 triggered "seven days in mayhem."
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/09/btrtn-august-2018-month-in-review-seven.html
Excerpts:"The historical significance of the Trump administration may well prove to the existential battle between the rule of law and a president who does not respect it. If so, August is sure to be recorded as a month in which both sides brandished their weapons as the United States careened toward what seems to be an inevitable showdown between unbridled executive power and the efficacy of checks and balances to contain it...
"It appears increasingly possible that Donald Trump will try to shut down the Mueller investigation. It remains unlikely that he would try to act on this before the mid-terms, as that would risk further damaging his party’s prospects in the election. Yet he has to be conscious of the fact that the longer he waits, the more time he is giving Mueller to develop evidence, explore plea deals, secure indictments, and put together his final report...
"Within the narrow time frame of major headlines surrounding Manafort, Cohen, Sessions, and McGahn came the sad news that Senator John McCain had elected to end treatment for brain cancer. The President took the occasion of the widely-revered Senator's passing to fully demonstrate that he is a small and bitter man indeed. As glowing tributes to the genuine military hero and former Republican Presidential candidate cascaded across the airwaves, Trump grumpily folded his arms for 48 hours and refused to say a word about McCain until shamed into doing so. In short, the month of August culminated with Seven Days in Mayhem."
